The Dirty Dozen – 12 “Secrets” of Successful Salespeople As we start to ramp up to our new normal, one thing that isn’t likely to change is the difference between the top and the bottom of any sales organization. While every industry has its relatively few true superstar sellers, a third of the remaining group …
Car Dealer SEO: Same Old, Same Old I’ll keep this one brief. And, to answer the question you’re going to have while reading this article: No, I do not sell search engine optimization. I’ve written and spoken about the waste and fraud in automotive search engine optimization for at least a decade. Because it’s digital, …
Dealers: Beware Artificial Activity Targets I get it. The dealership sold zero vehicles on a Tuesday. Salespeople spent the entire day in the vaping circle or surfing the web. No one was making their calls. Fifty Calls Per Day! To combat the lethargy, someone on the leadership team demanded action. “I want each salesperson making …
The Kumbaya Strategy – Why Your Ineffective Internet Team/BDC Thinks They’re Doing a Good Job Imagine a world where no one ever told you “no.” Relaxing and enjoyable, right? Now imagine working on an internet sales team or in a sales BDC and never hearing a prospect tell you “no” over the phone.
You Can’t Cut Your Way to Market Share Growth It’s a flattening vehicle market – I get it – but, you simply cannot cut your way to market share growth. Of course, you also can’t keep throwing money at some shiny marketing widget just because everyone claims it’s the coolest thing ever. For dealers with …
Stop Wasting Your Money on Phone Training! Wait… what? Did I just read what I think I read? Yep. One of the biggest wastes of money I see for most dealers today is the $1,000 to $5,000 every month they shell out for outsourced phone training. Whether the budget is used for interactive online phone …
The “Secrets” to Selling More Used Cars for More Gross Every great used car manager you or I have ever met already knows the “secrets” to selling more used cars for more gross profit. (I wrote “secrets” in quotes, because these aren’t really secrets – since everyone knows them – they’re more like axioms …
Learn how to provide The Perfect Appointment in your dealership and enjoy 80% show rates and 80% close rates! In 2013, we officially introduced dealers to The Appointment Culture as an answer to the dozens of worthless activities we observed managers, salespeople and BDC agents conducting in some effort to appear as if they were …
Today’s consumers have a lot of the answers they need before they ever contact your dealership or set foot on your lot, but they don’t have ALL the answers. Your organization’s processes and talk tracks must adapt to this ever-changing reality, which means you should be training your team constantly with the most up-to-date lessons …
Because so many dealers and traditional sales managers continue to look at their internet department as this mysterious group of ex-Dungeons and Dragons players who too closely resemble the graduating class at Hogwarts, it’s important to break down the simplest of strategies that truly drive successful internet sales efforts today. There’s no need to overthink …
